Dugok House in Yangdong, Gyeongju

Yangdong is a clan village of the Wolseong Son and Yeogang Yi families, which has preserved many houses of long tradition well on the broad Angang Plain. This house was built by Yi Je-jung, the sixth-generation descendant of Yi Eon-jeok; it was later purchased by Yi Jo-won (art name Dugok), grandfather of Yi Hui-tae, and his descendants live there now. It is said to have been built around 1733, the ninth year of King Yeongjo, and is also called "Dugok House" after Yi Jo-won's art name. A representative great house of the southern part of the village, it has the basic open, ㅁ-shaped plan formed by the main quarters, the men's quarters and the lower quarters, with attached buildings arranged front and back. Besides these three, the house's composition also includes an outer gate quarters, a servants' quarters, a stable and a mill house. The outer gate quarters is four bays wide: the two bays on the right form a storeroom, and the one bay on the left is the gatekeeper's room. To the left, or west, as one enters the gate stands the stable, said to have been sited there deliberately to compensate for ground that lies low and exposed to the west. The men's quarters is five bays wide and one bay deep, containing two bays of daecheong, two rooms and a one-bay attendant's room, with a central gate set between the men's quarters and the lower quarters. Passing through the central gate, the lower quarters lies to the left and the L-shaped main quarters to the right. In the main quarters the main room sits at the bend of the L, with the kitchen to its left; to the right of the main room are an inner daecheong and an across room arranged in the Seoul style. The lower quarters is seven bays wide and one bay deep, containing, from beside the central gate, one bay each of wooden floor, two rooms, a kitchen, a storeroom, an ondol room and a wooden-floored room. Behind the main room stands the servants' quarters, made up of two storerooms and one room, with the mill house to its left. Built to make good use of the lie of the land on a broad plain, this large house is valuable material for research. At the time of designation the name was "Yangdong Yi Hui-tae House", but since the house was built around 1730 by Yi Jun-sang and later came into the possession of Yi Jo-won (art name Dugok), it has come to be called "Dugok House", and the designated name was changed to "Dugok House, Yangdong" on 29 January 2007. This heritage site is generally open to visitors, but access may be restricted due to the personal circumstances of the owner or other private matters.

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Where it is

Region

Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산